Rachel Attituq Qitsualik-Tinsley is a
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
writer. She was a winner of the
Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2015 for ''Skraelings'', which she cowrote with her husband
Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley. The book was also a shortlisted finalist for the
at the
2014 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2014 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 7, 2014,[Inuit mythology
Inuit religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Inuit, an Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous people from Alaska, northern Canada, parts of Siberia and Greenland. Their religion shares many similarities with some Al ...]
. The book was reissued in 2015 as ''How Things Came to Be: Inuit Stories of Creation''.
She works as an
Inuktitut language
Inuktitut (; , syllabics ; from , "person" + , "like", "in the manner of"), also Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the tree line, including parts of the provinces o ...
translator, and has written both non-fiction and short stories about
Inuit culture. In 2012, she was awarded the
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (french: Médaille du jubilé de diamant de la reine Elizabeth II) or The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal was a commemorative medal created in 2012 to mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's ...
for her writing.
In 2017, she ran as a candidate in the
Nunavut territorial election for the electoral district of
Quttiktuq. Qitsualik-Tinsley finished in last place in her riding, with 0 votes.
Publications
References
External links
Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsleyat Inhabit Media
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21st-century Canadian novelists
Canadian women novelists
Inuit writers
Living people
Canadian writers of young adult literature
Writers from Nunavut
21st-century Canadian women writers
Women writers of young adult literature
21st-century Canadian translators
Canadian Inuit women
Women in Nunavut politics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Inuit from the Northwest Territories
Inuit from Nunavut
Canadian women non-fiction writers
People from Qikiqtaaluk Region